Sprint's Boost Mobile Divestiture Won't Boost Competition, Says Dish Network
Boost Mobile as a stand-alone business wouldn't be a meaningful competitor, so Sprint's promised divestiture (see 1905200004) won't reduce the anticompetitive impact of T-Mobile/Sprint on prepaid wireless customers as Sprint claims it would, said Dish Network Thursday in FCC docket…
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18-197. It produced what it said was an internal Sprint document with heavy redactions that "directly contradicts" Sprint's public statements assuring that the Boost divestiture would remove any competitive doubts. Friday, Sprint didn't comment. A variety of groups told FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks' office that T-Mobile/Sprint will cost jobs (see 1905240026) while a number of Senate Democrats are urging the FCC and DOJ to deny the deal (see 1905230071).